Word: forehead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of such goings on, the body is prepared for burial. In many societies the big toes of the corpse, or sometimes the ankles, are tied together, usually in order to keep the spirit of the dead from wandering around the house. Mongols anoint the forehead of the corpse with butter and then place a yellow willow leaf upon the same spot 72 times. The Buganda remove the intestines from the body, wash them in a kind of beer and save the beer, which is then imbibed by the dead man's widows. In most societies some sort...
Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
...series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during...
...only momentarily and from certain angles. The same line slopes from between the shoulder blades up to the top of the skull, with few contours at the rear of the head; the same roll and a half of flesh lies under the chin. But in mouth, nose, eyes, and forehead Snow differs from Khrushchev, and one thinks more of a character from his own novels than of the Russian...
...Scripps's sons were over six feet tall," Howard has recalled, "and he naturally had a preference for tall men. When I stood in front of him, 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing about 115 Ibs., he pushed his glasses up on his forehead and said: 'My God, another little one.' " Replied Howard: "Yes, but maybe a good one this time...